{"id":4261,"date":"2016-06-12T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4261"},"modified":"2016-06-12T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T15:59:46","slug":"another-senufo-kpelie-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/another-senufo-kpelie-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Senufo Kpelie mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4262\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-982a\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 This was my Father&#8217;s and I have no idea where he got it. He had several other masks and pieces of art that were definitely just decoration. This one is different from the rest which raised my curiosity level. Rather small in size but it does fit over my face.\u00a0 Gary, 982<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 Your mask is called a Kpelie and comes from the Senufo people of Ivory Coast.<span id=\"more-2332\"><\/span> These refined face masks represent women, are danced by men, and are usually associated with the Poro association. Called \u201cBeautiful Lady\u201d or Kpelie, they come with many variations, with rich and complex symbolism. There are other Kpelies in the blog archives. You will always recognize the design, but the details can vary greatly. This particular example has been carved with great strength and depth. It could be old and used, but this is rarely the case.\u00a0 <strong>B+<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4263\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-982b\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/aaaMystrySolvd-982b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 298px; left: 345px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 This was my Father&#8217;s and I have no idea where he got it. He had several other masks and pieces of art that were definitely just decoration. This one is different from the rest which raised my curiosity level. Rather small in size but it does fit over my face.\u00a0 Gary, 982 A:\u00a0 Your mask is called a Kpelie and comes from the Senufo people of Ivory Coast. These refined face masks represent women, are danced by men, and are usually associated with the Poro association. Called \u201cBeautiful Lady\u201d or Kpelie, they come with many variations, with rich and complex symbolism. There are other Kpelies in the blog archives. You will always recognize the design, but the details can vary greatly. This particular example has been carved with great strength and depth. It could be old and used, but this is rarely the case.\u00a0 B+ Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4261\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}